![]() It is said that Dain was a “great and wise” leader and though details are scant, it is said that had not Dain and King Brand stood in his path, Sauron may have been able to stretch his arm north and cause great destruction. The Dwarves and men of Dale were a strong presence that secured the north of Middle-earth, leaving the War of the Ring and Sauron more to the south around Mordor and taking the Great Dragon out of play. Soon after the battle, his status was elevated to King Under The Mountain, giving Dwarves a mighty presence and fortress as Gandalf desired. It is likely most of the Dwarf soldiers on the field were grizzled vets of the previous Orc war and would have been experienced survivors and killers. The events told in ‘The Hobbit’ concern chiefly Thorin but Dain enters the story when, after receiving a message from a bird, led his folk to again bleed for his people at the Battle of Five Armies to once again fight goblins, including Bolg, the son of Azog. After burning the great number of dead and leaving no armor or weapons behind for Orc scavengers, Dain, who saw that a Balrog of Morgoth lurked within, led his folk back to the Iron Hills, leaving Thrain and Thorin Oakenshield behind with the head of Azog. The young Dain became the lord of the Dwarves in the Iron Hills in the north regions of Middle-earth, declining to enter Moria after the battle with the Goblins. Azog was infamous for acts of desecration of the body of Thror after killing him in Moria (which in fact precipitated the whole war in the dark places of Middle-earth) and so Dain’s feat was a great triumph for his people who sought revenge and not treasure. ![]() Dain, a stripling barely old enough for battle caught the chief as he was nearly on the threshold of Moria and hewed off the goblin’s head with his red ax in the Battle of Azanulbizar. In a war between the Dwarves and the Orcs, when the Dwarf armies had marched to the gates of Khazad-dum, Dain’s father Nain, fatigued by battle, was killed by the great goblin Azog. The actor posted a photo of himself riding a bike while also wearing a back brace.Dain, actually named Dain II Ironfoot, was one of the great Dwarves of his age or perhaps any age and was an important figure in The War of the Ring, although much less heralded in the histories of Elves, Men and Hobbits. Last year, Orlando took to Instagram to share a throwback snap of himself amid his recovery. ![]() ![]() As somebody who’d sort of always been very active in my life, it felt very restrictive all of a sudden and I was in a lot of pain." He said: "I would say the months after the fall were quite a dark time. Orlando recalled being in a "dark" frame of mind as he made a slow recovery from injury. The Hollywood star underwent spinal surgery and his recovery was a complicated process. And the culmination was breaking my back, which was a near-death experience." "That was really the beginning of what was a long and painful journey for me into recognising and understanding some of the patterns that had been in my life that had led me to having numerous accidents. I was told for the first four days that I may never walk again. I was very fortunate to survive the fall because my spinal cord was still just intact. In a video shared on Instagram by UNICEF, Orlando explained: "When I was 19, I fell three floors from a window and broke my back. The 45-year-old actor fell and broke his back as a teenager, and he admits that the injury left him in a negative frame of mind. Orlando Bloom endured a "dark time" after suffering a near-death experience at 19.
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